Slavery Quotes

"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds."
-Bob Marley

"War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength."
-George Orwell

"The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself."
-Seneca

"Life without the courage for death is slavery."
-Seneca

"A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers."
-Epicurus

"Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings."
-Nelson Mandela

"Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery."
-Lawana Blackwell

"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!"
-Patrick Henry

"The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in inequity and born in sin... But if you want to continue to be slaves of the bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let the bankers continue to create money and control credit ."
-Josiah Charles Stamp

"[Muhammad's] greatest contribution to African Americans was in restoring their sense of pride and offering them an alternative to Christianity, for which slavery left a bitter aftertaste, ... But his greatest failure was in refusing to lead them beyond the pride of race and to do what his son Wallace has done: to guide black people beyond a race-based version of Islam to orthodox Islam."
-Karl Evanzz

"Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery."
-George Segal

"This is how we kept the African soul alive though centuries of slavery."
-Pai Decio Babalaorixa

"This is an exciting opportunity to talk about creating a united front against this 21st century slavery."
-Marilyn Carlson Nelson

"The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery."
-Upton Sinclair

"For humanity has moved forward to an era when wrong and slavery are being displaced, and reason and justice are being recognized as the rule of life."
-Mary Ashton Livermore

"It's a modern day slavery. It's a modern day apartheid when people here are being used for their work and they don't have any rights whatsoever."
-Paul Lopez

"If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs."
-Mary Mcleod Bethune

"The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes."
-Alan Keyes

"Slavery ends and everyone's friends now, right? I wish it could happen that nicely."
-Charles Murray

"History is not going to be kind to liberals. With their mindless programs, they've managed to do to Black Americans what slavery, Reconstruction, and rank racism found impossible: destroy their family and work ethic."
-Walter Williams

"My principal objections to orthodox religion are two - slavery here and hell hereafter."
-Robert Green Ingersoll

"Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!"
-George Gissing

"To this point, the few films that have focused on the issue of slavery have not performed well at the box office."
-Martin Grove

"The United Nations Security Council has been silent on the war in northern Uganda for two decades. In that time over 25,000 children in northern Uganda have been abducted by the LRA and many forced into sexual slavery and made to become child soldiers."
-Greg Puley

"There is no slavery but ignorance."
-Robert Ingersoll

"Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery."
-Leon Litwack

"Voodoo is not some kind of black magic cult. It's the distillation of very profound religious ideas that came over during the tragic era of slavery."
-Wade Davis